On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 5:26 AM, mr_willem <wil...@crossbone.org> wrote:
> First of all, I want to tell that this bug is also very widespread in germany. I note that the browser market share (as per StatCounter) in Germany http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-DE-daily-20080701-20090329 is approximately on the order of: FF3: 55% IE7: 22.5% IE6: 7.5% Part of Bug #1 is the diagnostic: --- 1. Visit a local PC store. 2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed. --- For those in Germany, in terms of _just_browsers_ where the software libre Firefox now appears to represent a *majority* of web users, how often do you see Firefox actually preinstalled on computer systems in stores? If it is significantly less than half (as I suspect; note this article from a year and a half ago: http://www.crn.com/software/202402974), then it is clear that the bottleneck in terms of fixing this bug is the OEMs, not the users... > On the other hand there are companies who show good support for drivers but are somehow rejected by the community. One of those examples is NVIDIA. I must say I had less problems using their drivers than any of the open source drivers for graphics cards. And their drivers are very performant. There is no mystery (no "somehow") as to why NVIDIA drivers are "rejected by the community"; they are closed-source. If you want to argue that performance-ends justifies the licensing-means, then we might as well all switch to Macs (http://www.nvidia.com/page/apple.html) and be done with it, but that is not what software libre is all about. Also, NVIDIA could choose to open source their drivers if they wanted (note that ATI also refused to do that, but then they got bought by AMD and the story began to change). Really the question you should be asking is 'Why are there companies who show good support for [Linux] drivers but somehow reject the community's principles?' -- Microsoft has a majority market share https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
